Are Role Playing Games A Good Diverting Action For Children?

Role playing games with simulated violence are a healthy diverting action for children. Obviously, too much of these games can have a negative influence as some say but certainly, if managed well role-playing games can be a good diverting and beneficial action for children to partake in. One such reason for this is that role-playing games with simulated violence can be a good outlet for children with lots of energy or violent tendencies. For example, a child who gets into fights a lot instead can play these games and release their anger out on the game instead of their peers. Also, even if children don’t have violent tendencies these role playing games can still be an excellent way for them to use their excess amount of energy they have. It is true that role-playing games may actually increase tendencies or influence kids to be violent but if the simulated role playing games are managed and children don’t do it too

For example, many games let children develop a strategy to try and win, also in games children are more willing to take risks with outside the box ideas then in real life. As seen in the text “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out” by Guy Martin published by The New Yorker it says “The Idea was to use a cell phone to call the Cohens’ landline posing as Cohen's’ teammate Dominic, using Dominic’s caller I.D. The call had been engineered from a remote computer by a squad member with prodigious hacking skills.” Here it shows that children in simulated violent games can use increased out of the box skills to solve problems. This can increase a child’s amount of creativity a lot which is definitely a good thing for anyone to have. On top of this, many people who play video games often will develop good hand eye coordination among other things. This is also another reason why video games are actually beneficial for